The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1887-06-02

The Prohibition convention held Wed
nesdsy In the Opera House, was ATTENDED
BY about sixty delegates. In the after
noon q short address was delivered b.
DR., A. B. Leonard after which delegates
We-e appointed to the State convention
to meet at Delaware. A code Of Tesolu
tions setting forth the principles of thC
party was adopted aud the fOIlOWiDG
ticket nominated for the fall election:
State SenstOr-Wllliam. N. Calhoun
Carroll county,
ReprsssntatiVes-W. H. Hoover and
Abel 3. RhOads.
Prosecut0r-James Sterling.
Probate Judge-John R. Waters.
Tressurer-R. H. Br0sius.
Sheriff-W. D. Reifsneider.
COmmissioner-M. o. Slater.
Infirmary Director -Mahlen Slutz.
After several committee reports were
made the convention adjourned.
REV DR LEoNARD's ADDRESS.
The audience at the Opera House last
night to hear DR.. LeOnard's lecture on
"The Deadly Upas Tree" was made up
of about six hundred people, which was
held spellH HIbOuud from beginning to
end. The liquor traffic was shown to be
the deadly upas tree of this country, and
that unless It was dealt with as we deal
with other crimes, and cut 1t down, 1t
will ruin the country. DR.. Leonard
showed that In 1895 1t was the habit Of
all classes Of citizons to use stimul8nts,
but they were pure and unadulterated,
and the consumption per capita was
seven and half gallons per year, while
now, according to Bradstreet's report,
there were but q per cent. Of the people
who were drinkers, and that all kinds
of liquors were adulteTRted and poison
0us, and the consumption Of the 15,O00,-
600 who do use liquors, had grown to
forty gallons Of malt liquor, five and q
half gallons Of strong drinks, and one
gallon Of wine per capita annually.
he claimed that capital a1d labor could
never become recOnclled Rs long as the
saloon existed. Also that the existence
Of the saloon was the cause of fully
three f0urths of the pauperism, crime
and hard times. He said the annual
waste Of over $500, 100000 by the liquor
traffic would ruin US as a nation In q
few years, but for our greet resources,
and thatllt was sure death to the nation
at any rate, unless 1t was forever and |
entirely abolished. All systems Of reg
ulation Of so great an evil, whether II. |
cense or tax, were declared q delusiOn |
and snare. Such q course had been |
pursued by England for nearly five |
hundred years, and 1t was tO-day the |
worst cursed nation Of any nation on
earth by the traffic.
deeply interested In the destruction of /
kha fn0 a. 0OnIH ha fhwa-ah
political parties, and the only hope was |
to have party formed on the distinct
temperance issue, the same as parties
were formed In the past to carry for
ward great moral reforms. The preju-
diceslOf the two old parties, he charged,
were so Intense against each other that
even II one of the old parties took up /
the question Of prohibition. they could |
not draw the prohibition element from
the other party to them. The result was
that individuals, friends Of prohibition
from both the old parties, were forsak
ing them and coming into new party,
with the utmost confidence In eac
other, and that, therefore,, what Is now
ss the third party would
soon IcOme to the front and be tn FIRST
party.
Not only politicians, but ministers
were much under the power Of the rum
tyranny, and that 1t became every man,
and especially every Christian man, to
act for God and home and native land,
Independent OF all false teaching;
and that the light was rapidly
being spread on this great ques-
tloD In every State In the union. The
storm Of indignation against the traffic,
and false teachers was redidly growing,
and the time was not distant when the
people In their might would arise 6nd
fell this deadly Dpas tree OF the drink
traffic, which would be as effectu8lly
abolished as the great @ ime OF human
slavery had been.
The doctor spoke for about two hours
and all his hearers we're deeply interest
ed. At the close Of the lecture many
came forward to shake him by the hand.
DR.. Leonard left the city this morning
via the Cleveland & Canton railroad for
Ohio, where he speaks this
afternoon. From there he goes to his
home In PlQua, o., where he has great
ly prospered as the pastor of the N. E.
church, Mrs. Leonard was with the
doctor on this rip. Her health has not
been very good, and 1t was thought a
littl. journey might be beneficial to her.